How to Use unanimity in a Sentence

unanimity

noun

• So this seems to be a sort of rare moment of unanimity in the House.
  — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• Tonight was the first time some cracks showed in that unanimity.
  — Dara Lind, Vox, 27 June 2019
• There would be unanimity in such a case, or close to it.
  — Brian Kalt, Daily Intelligencer, 14 Oct. 2017
• But the lack of unanimity over the exhumation shows that the country has yet to agree on the past.
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
• For the sake of unanimity, some of the language was weakened.
  — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
• But the unanimity in which this case was dispatched was short lived.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2022
• Because there has been a lack of unanimity in the walk-up shows this year, the race is seen as close and unsettled.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 13 Mar. 2022
• And as to that, there is unanimity in Washington and in the country.
  — NBC News, 26 Sep. 2021
• That kind of unanimity is rare on such a big issue and not likely to come so quickly, if at all, in the House.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2023
• Tax reforms in the EU need unanimity among EU states, a factor that has blocked many overhauls in the past.
  — Reuters, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2017
• The fallback for the lack of jury unanimity was a life sentence.
  — Joey Jackson, CNN, 15 Oct. 2022
• Inside the White House and the Pentagon, there is no unanimity on that point.
  — New York Times, 28 Nov. 2021
• Not long ago in the Arab world there was a modicum of unanimity on the primacy of the Palestinian cause.
  — Ben Wedeman, CNN, 3 Dec. 2020
• But there was near unanimity within the commission on the scale of the problem.
  — Bob Kerrey and John C. Danforth, WSJ, 20 June 2021
• Putin has been playing on the concept of unanimity for years.
  — David A. Andelman, CNN, 16 May 2022
• But unanimity is required to change the coaching rules at Grand Slam events.
  — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2019
• But the one thing that seems to be locked in unanimity for the most part is the lack of one consensus player that everyone can agree on.
  — Clyde Verdin, NOLA.com, 29 July 2017
• In early votes, there was near unanimity that Schulte was guilty, but one juror held out.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 26 July 2022
• The unanimity in steel country stands in sharp contrast to how the tariffs have played in Washington and around the country.
  — David Weigel, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2018
• If enforced and overwrought unanimity is the disease of today’s Democrats, chaos threatens to be the new GOP curse.
  — Joel Kotkin, Orange County Register, 19 Feb. 2017
• Pollio, though, wants a 7-0 vote to show unanimity for the important plan.
  — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 27 May 2022
• No such unanimity in the service of truth exists at the Capitol today.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• But there is no unanimity on how best to go about deterring Russia or what measures to take in the event of an attack on Ukraine.
  — Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2022
• There will be no unanimity, though, in how the new policy is received.
  — Greg Cote, miamiherald, 23 May 2018
• On sports radio in Louisville, fans were mixed about whether Pitino should have been fired, but there was near unanimity about Jurich.
  — Joe Nocera, Bloomberg.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• In a recent interview, three of the group’s leaders said they were surprised by the unanimity of the board’s vote to terminate the contract.
  — Stephen Smiley, Slate Magazine, 29 Mar. 2017
• The unanimity rule has long stalled the bloc’s decision-making process.
  — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
• Their goal will be to persuade one juror to vote for a life sentence, as unanimity will be required to sentence Cruz to death.
  — Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2021
• Howell quickly realized which one had the most unanimity: players' desires to play on grass fields instead of turf.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2024
• For present purposes, our differences are far less important than our unanimity: All nine Justices agree on the outcome of this case.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024